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The lightmapping made visibleA massive update to the lighting system is available right now! It’s compatible with pre-existing savegames. If Steam doesn’t update automatically, try verifying the integrity of the game cache. 
OldWe did add a system that checked the position of the player. It measured how exposed the player was to the skybox. If the player was in an open field, the indirect lighting would be boosted. Deep in a cave, the indirect lighting would be dimmed.
NewIt’s very performance intensive to continuously simulate this on your PC. But as a voxel game where the world is made out of big cubes, there are some useful approximations. In the new update, we calculate lightmaps for all those cubes. The brightest value is for every 1x1x1 area that can directly see the sky above it. Every block that can’t see the sky like that, but that is directly adjacent to the first category, is a bit darker. This chain is calculated 16 blocks deep. 
OldInstead of trying to trace complicated paths to the sun, there are some simpler rules you can apply. Crevices and hidden corners will always be darker than openly exposed surfaces. Ambient Occlusion exploits this to add some realism. We had been using a standard AO that applied this effect, but it only looked at smaller details - it had a range of about five centimeters. We added a new one that uses the voxel system to analyze the local environment. Instead of five centimeters, it adds appropriate shading based on a range of about two meters. 
NewIf you’re playing 0.11.1 and you run into any glitches or bugs, please let us know! If you don’t like the changes in general, if you want things to be darker, brighter, with more contrast, more saturated, less saturated - share that too. The previous version, 0.11.0, will still be available in the beta branches tab. We’ll definitely read feedback on our Discord
In the previous blog, we talked about an improved lighting system. We’re close to releasing it publicly, but we love to do a test first! We’re curious about the results in different worlds, the performance on different hardware and your opinion about it. 
The release of 0.11 was a big success! Player counts regularly peaked above 300 simultaneous players, and our recent review rate rose to 98% positive. Thanks to everybody for the support! 
Visualizing the new lightmapsSo Zun is working on a system that dynamically renders lightmaps. He has added an Ambient Occlusion system that uses raytracing to make corners and crevices appear darker. And he has built a system that knows which areas have direct sunlight overhead. The floodfill system that was already used for lighting from torches and such, now applies to that as well, to make the sunlight spread around more natural. 
Bedankt voor het lezen :D
Update 0.11 is now available on Steam! The most visible change is a total replacement of all the colonist models. In the past, we only had one colonist model. It used UV-mapped textures, and they were difficult to change for us. The only thing that varied between colonists was the color of their shirts.
To make the colonists even more unique, we’ve decided to add individual names to the colonists. When you recruit a small group of colonists simultaneously, there’s a large chance that they share the same surname. 
Some final changes: over time, grass blocks will spread their grass to neighbouring dirt blocks. And previously, saplings placed by the player would always grow into the same tiny, basic tree. In 0.11, these saplings will be able to grow into the tree shapes you saw in “nature”. 
The current colonist model was already in the game over eight years ago, in early 2016. The workflow for producing it was horrible. The model has a bunch of surfaces that connect and disconnect in many different spots. To texture them, the model has to be “unwrapped” into a flat image that displays all these surfaces next to each other. But getting a feel for how the textures look on a 3D model from a flat image is very difficult. 
Farmer / tinkerer / beekeeperI had used it to make a new vertex-painted colonist model before the release of 0.9.0, but Zun never got around to implementing it. It was also a bit “flat”, undetailed and boring. In recent weeks, Zun did put it in an internal development build, and I gave it a bit more life and detail. We like the results a lot and are near-certain of adding this to the main branch. 
Named colonistsAnother change concerns the saplings. Saplings placed by players would always grow into the same very small tree. In the next big update, saplings will be able to grow into larger, more diverse and more natural shapes, like the trees that are in the world when you first launch the game. 
After six years, Colony Survival finally has a new main trailer! Here it is: 
We set another major step since the last Friday Blog. We now have full controller support and Steam Deck compatibility! 
The game is currently on sale! It’s 30% discounted. If you don’t own it yet - this is a great time to purchase it! And if you do - thanks, and consider telling your friends or outright gifting them the game :) 
RaftsburgLast and least, for the first time in years, we’ve updated the storepage. We changed some promotional texts to better reflect the current state of the game, nearly completely rewrote the answers to the Early-Access-questions, and updated some banner-images. 
Lagoon's world used in these screenshots and the videoLighting has changed quite dramatically! Here is a before/after video: 
To simulate morning dew, there is a new fog effect in the valleys, which helps to bring some of the ‘drama’ back. And we’ve dimmed torches and other player-built lighting during the day, to make towns appear less “orange”. 
When you can see the sun directly for the first time, the sunlight has to travel through the atmosphere for a very long time before it hits your eyeball. Which means that a large percentage of it has already scattered away and bounced around. As a consequence, when the sun is close to the horizon, you actually don’t witness deep shadows. The direct sunlight is weak and the scattered light that is indirectly bouncing around is relatively strong. 
Another problem is that our eyes absolutely do not register light objectively. They constantly adapt to the world around us. Two things that have the same brightness might look completely different to us, depending on the circumstances.
The live build of Colony Survival was just updated from 0.10.0.13 to 0.10.1.0! The main change in this update concerns water. The visuals are much improved. Instead of it being solid light-blue “shaving foam”, it’s transparent with a new “wave-effect”. Moving around in water has also been enhanced. 
The lighting during the day cycle has been tweaked a bit. We also found a bug affecting the ambient lighting during the sunset and sunrise, which has been fixed. 
Veel plezier met de update!
As long as Colony Survival has been publicly available, people have called the water block the ugliest in-game block. It has always been a pain point. Water is actually a very strange material. Unlike sand or stone or grass or wood, you’re not simply looking at a static surface. Water is transparent and reflective, and big bodies of water are always moving. 
Both transparency and reflections are complicated and costly to pull off right. Many games have static worlds, meaning the major features of buildings and terrain aren’t really moving. Simultaneously, their water is often also something that can’t really be moved, and which always acts as a simple 2D surface. It’s a lot easier to make this simplified water look realistic. 
But in our game, it’s not so simple. Players can completely change the terrain and they have to manually add the buildings. They can dig canals and make the water dynamically move to new spots. The water actually consists of 3D blocks which can be viewed from all sides. 
Our old solution was to just give it a ‘physical surface’ like all the other blocks, and to make the textures move around automatically to simulate little waves. It worked when you looked at it from a distance and didn’t think about it too much, but when you got close and focused on it it was quite weird. 
But now, Zun has taken the time to look at the water properly, and to figure out a form of transparency that works well with our lighting system. We’re very happy with the results! All the pictures in this blog show the new water. It hasn’t been released publicly yet, but expect it to be part of the new patch. 
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